A second like a sunlit spark
Flashed singing up his track;
But never
overtook
that foremost lark,
And songless fluttered back.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The whole of human life is
deeply
involved
in _untruth_.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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And he had had some of those tremendous
lessons which teach even the most profligate, if the
light of intelligence be not wholly
quenched
in them,
that moral laws cannot be disregarded with impunity.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The latter
express really only the lack, the absence of the
others, the
positive
ones.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed
by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The cook would find time to talk about her
artistic
nature, and say did I not
think Tolstoy was EPATANT, and sing in a fine soprano voice as she minced beef on the
board.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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The dissolute life of the monks
utterly
disgusted
him, while the clergy stormed him with petitions to
continue his lectures.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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―
――――――――――
THE ATONEMENT
From the Philosophy of History>
<
[The Persian idea of good and evil (Ormuzd and Ahriman) is not much
deeper than that of light and darkness, but in the Old Testament it becomes
the distinction between
holiness
and sin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Though the word is often
translated
as "abbot," the khenpo is not usually the administrator of the monastery.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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For the few who still peer around in those archives, the
realization
is dawning that our lives are the confused answer to questions which were asked in places we have forgotten.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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A satiri- cal portrait of
industrial
nations controlled by financial syndicates was the subject of his
L'ile des Pengouins in which Professor Obnubile is amazed to find that prosperous nations do not promote peace.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Such essays mistake themselves for that kind of feuilleton
journalism
with which mistake themselves for that kind of feuilleton journalism with which the enemies of form confuse the form of the essay.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For, however much
we assume that wisdom is a science of sciences, and has a sway over
other sciences, surely she will have this
particular
science of the
good under her control, and in this way will benefit us.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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' Forthcoming in:
Guillermo
Zermeno
[ed.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The tendency of the work we discern most distinctly in the constant,
often—most decidedly, doubtless, in the case of the Aquitanian
expedition
iii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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191 As her medieval
devotees
read them, the Psalms, like the Virgin herself, were inexhaustible, every word a hint as to her praise.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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I opened
my eyes, as I have said; I rose with the utmost caution and, listening
intently to the
confused
murmur, which every moment sounded nearer, I
heard in the gusts of wind something like cries and strange songs,
bursts of laughter, and three or four distinct voices which talked
together with a chatter and gay confusion like that of the young girls
at the village when, laughing and jesting on the way, they return in
groups from the fountain with their water-jars on their heads.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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'"
With the kindly fatalism which is the distinctive note of the foregoing
stanza, the sentiment of our next extract is in vivid contrast:--
"There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was
terribly
bored by a bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Its popular edition is sadomasochism in the middle-class household, where harmless people mutually bind themselves to the bedposts to experience something new; its version of luxury is aesthetic snobbism, which professes the primacy of
accidental
preference.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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His arguments
were, however, less
forceful
than his example: he referred again
and again to 'my lord of Canterbury's book' for proof of his
assertions; and discussion of the one subject—that of the pope's
supremacy-upon which he would have liked to enlarge, was
refused him.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
Who will ever think it
possible
to surrender a Christian people to the Turks for eternal control?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Ah,
there was merit
neglected
for you!
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Milton |
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Whenthismonarchhadbeendeposed,and
banished
from the empire, by his son Henry V.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Why is any man,
undeserving
[of distressed
circumstances], in want, while you abound: How comes it to pass, that
the ancient temples of the gods are falling to ruin?
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Horace - Works |
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"103 Two conditions imposed upon Maurice Byrchen-
shaw when he was granted
laureation
at Oxford were that he
"Ed.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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3
I had
travelled
all day and was tired, then I bowed my head towards thy
kingly court still far away.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Depending
on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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9Thus the free will of human drawing-hands in scientific visualization remains just as excluded as it is in the
mechanics
of human legs.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Weininger's belief that all evil was due to his own guilt can
be understood only by considering his psychological develop-
ment, particularly his
inclinations
to hatred and revenge.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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) by which I am enabled to form an opinion of the
antiquity
of the text, which it has not perhaps fallen to the lot of other Gaedhlic scholars to do.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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'" I looked sternly at my friend while I thus
addressed
him;
for, to say the truth, I felt particularly puzzled, and when a man is
particularly puzzled he must knit his brows and look savage, or else he
is pretty sure to look like a fool.
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Poe - 5 |
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VI, 91-
Tu mihi, supremas proscripta ad candida callis
Currenti, spatium praemonstra, callida musa,
Calliope, requies hominum,
divu^mque
voluptas;
Te duce, ut insigni capiam cum laude coronam.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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God Willing
THE POEMS OF BION,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Bion |
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The times has bene,
That when the Braines were out, the man would dye,
And there an end: But now they rise againe
With twenty mortall
murthers
on their crownes,
And push vs from our stooles.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XLVIII
While Sacripant laments him in this plight,
And makes a tepid fountain of his eyes;
And, what I deem not needful to recite,
Pours forth yet other plaints and piteous cries;
Propitious Fortune will his lady bright
Should hear the youth lament him in such wise:
And thus a moment
compassed
what, without
Such chance, long ages had not brought about.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For they said not, we hope that
He shall redeem Israel ; but, ue hoped that it had been He
that should have
redeemed
Israel.
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| Answer: |
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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we must discover how it can be about
ourselves
or theworld.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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But as the swain amazèd stood,
In this most solemn vein,
Came
Phyllida
forth of the wood,
And stood before the swain.
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William Browne |
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First, we
describe
player Ai?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The only good histories are those
that are written by such as
commanded
or were imploied themselves in
weighty affaires or that were partners in the conduct of them, or
that at least have had the fortune to manage others of like
qualitie.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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The vowels e and o are always long in Sanskrit, and
are
therefore
only marked as such in the non-Sanskritic names of Southern
India, in which it is necessary to distinguish them from the corresponding
short vowels.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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In 1877,
Seligman
and his family were refused accommodations at the fashionable resort of Saratoga Springs, New York; in the years that followed, the anti-Semitic virus spread rapidly, and soon Seligman's own club instituted an exclusionary policy.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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König Aelfred's angelsächsische
Bearbeitung
der Welt-
geschichte des Orosius.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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De ahí se sigue que quienes no tienen posesiones no pertenecen a la so ciedad, porque aún no han conseguido nada a lo que pudieran renunciar; igualmente, los nobles incorregibles no son capaces de vivir en sociedad, porque se ven en la
imposibilidad
de renunciar a su presunción heredada.
| Guess: |
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Martin's Monastery at Tours ; and, in one of his poems, Alcuin73 speaks
regarding
certain altars, erected to the Scottish or Irish virgins, Brigid and Ita.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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" She added, "Surely, you can find some
better
opportunity
to manage matters than this.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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:el
liiiIEE : ;
Fi sIi
iE$IitI!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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BOURGEOIS AND MARXIST HISTORIOGRAPHY 71
together with American
historians
and form, in some respects, a single com- munity of scholars with them.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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where neither change nor fate,
Nor care, nor sorrow, can our joys abate;
Nor finds the light of thought resistance here,
More than the
sunbeams
in a crystal sphere.
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Petrarch |
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Petersburg, filled with receptions at the residences of the various members of the Imperial family, calls at the Embassies, official visits, sight-seeing, and business of all sorts,
certainly
gives one ample opportunity to gain a better insight into local matters than the study of whole volumes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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When we see
The brown skulls grin at death in
churchyards
bleak,
We do not cry "This Yorick is too light,"
For death grows deathlier with that mouth he makes.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
|
81 e
instructions
for the observance kept by the Domin- ican confraternities of Pisa according to the rule established in 1312 are partic- ularly telling.
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| Question: |
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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The proper name which we obtain by
supplementing
this function with a proper name, e.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The pure mind is neither
promoter
nor mover.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
Combien je
possédais
plus Albertine aujourd'hui.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
The
principal
feet in Latin poetry are the spondee and
the dactyl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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But, afraid of
alarming
her mother by pro-
longing her absence, she persisted.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Krasinski spoke here
not merely out of his
knowledge
of human nature in
general, but out of his knowledge of his own self.
| Guess: |
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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" 20
"O
Richard!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sed tamen | id' o-|-Hm curru
succedere
| suetl
( iidem, Idem -- crasis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
The
historians
carry
us into the intricacies of their age, as if we were initiated into
the secrets of living persons.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
|
When these animals slough their shell becomes soft all over, and as for the crab, it can
scarcely
crawl.
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Aristotle copy |
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wouldbe wrongto denythelegitimacyoftheaspirationsofthepeople at large, but the universitiesmust conduct
themselvesin
a way which is appropriateto theirnature and tasks.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
|
I
recognised
Venus and her fearsome fires.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
But
stupidity
is not enough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
|
Napoleon made Elise a
princess
in her own right and gave her the Grand
Duchy of Tuscany.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
|
This brilliant and highly rhetorical
work is metrically more advanced than the Lygdamus elegies
and was certainly
composed
at a later date than these poems.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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emphasised the idea -- not as yet the name -- of the
Covenant
and the corresponding idea of the Law, and made these the basis of religion.
| Guess: |
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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And I had many
interruptions
short 1802.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Two
membranes
enclose it: the
stronger one near the bone of the skull; the inner one, round the
brain itself, is finer.
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Aristotle |
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But from a logical or an
epistemological
point of view this is impossible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
Eisenberg
( 1958) gives vignettes of mothers who, on arrival at school with their child, exhibit intense reluctance to relinquish him and behave in such a way that he is made anxious about school and perhaps guilty at enjoying the company of anyone but mother.
| Guess: |
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Bowlby - Separation |
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946 also, according the Annals Innisfallen, Tomar, earl
splendid victory over the Danish forces, was one the heirs pre
sumptive
the throne Ireland, and the same race the O'Donnells, princes Tirconnell and, according Charles O'Conor, was one the most distinguished men that age for abilities and valour.
| Guess: |
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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" 6T
Incidentally to his statement of the proper subjects of instruc-
tion, Elyot opens what was to prove a long and absorbingly inter-
esting debate by undertaking, "to shewe what profite may be taken
by the
diligent
reading of auncient poetes, contrarye to the false
opinion, that nowe rayneth, of them that suppose that in the works
of poetes is contayned nothynge but baudry, (suche is their foule
worde of reproche), and unprofitable leasinges.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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"
Keystone
Folklore Quarterly 8:59-
74.
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Childens - Folklore |
|
[965] Believe that not a
mortal tells you this, but the Pelasgian oaks of Dodona: my skill has
nothing
superior
to this to teach you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
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I do not speak here of the small trees and
shrubs, which are
commonly
observed, and which are now withered, but
of the large trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
’ tradition, Lizzie ought either to ‘spurn’ Eugene or to be ruined by him and
throw herself off Waterloo Bridge: Eugene ought to be either a
heartless
betrayer or a
hero resolved upon defying society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
Or is it a shared danger
a case of both
being pushed to the brink of war -
bearance,
collaborative
withdrawal, and prudent negotiation should dominate?
| Guess: |
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The characteristic attribute of Marvell's genius
was unquestionably wit, in all the varieties of
which — ^brief
sententious
sarcasm, fierce invective,
light raillery, grave irony, and broad laughing
humour — he seems to have been by nature almost
equally fitted to excel.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I speak it in the excusable warmth of a mind stung by an
accusation, which has not only been advanced in reviews of the widest
circulation, not only registered in the bulkiest works of periodical
literature, but by frequency of repetition has become an admitted fact
in private literary circles, and
thoughtlessly
repeated by too many who
call themselves my friends, and whose own recollections ought to have
suggested a contrary testimony.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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On the one hand, om the perspective ofuniversal Nature and gen eral providence, things which can seem repulsive, unpleasant, ugly, or terri ing, such as the thorns ofa rose, thejaws of rocious beasts, mud, or earthquakes, will seem to be physical phenomena which are com pletely natural: they are not directly programmed by the initial impulse, but are the accessory and necessary consequences thereof Ifthese inevi table consequences of the order of the world personally a ect the un r tunate vineyard-owner ofwhom Cicero speaks, and he considers this to be a mis rtune r him, then it does not llow that "Jupiter" has willed him to
consider
this phenomenon as a mis rtune.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Thus we are told
of the cunning and perverted acts of the Jesuits, but we
overlook
the
self mastery that each Jesuit imposes upon himself and also the fact
that the easy life which the Jesuit manuals advocate is for the benefit,
not of the Jesuits but the laity.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Zu “Leo und
Alexander
als Mitkaiser von Byzanz.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The peasant who had
consented
to perform this hideous office
afterwards returned to his plough.
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Macaulay |
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The sign
'Shakespear's Head' was well chosen, for, after Rowe's edition,
almost every
important
eighteenth century issue of Shakespeare
Pope's (1723—5), Theobald's (1733), Warburton's (1747), Johnson's
(1765), Steevens's (1766), Capell's (1767—8)—carries the name of
Tonson, either by itself or in partnership with others.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Waley's admirable work,
English
renderings
have usually failed to convey the flavour of the
originals.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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It is certainly true that the greater an artist or philospher may be, the more ruthless he will be in keeping faith with himself, in this very way often
disappointing
the expectations of those with whom he comes in contact in cvery-day life ;
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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William Browne |
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Ruggier la lancia
parimente
a porre
gli andò allo scudo, e gliele passò netto;
tutto che fosse appresso un palmo grosso,
dentro e di fuor d'acciaro, e in mezzo d'osso.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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